MIDDLESEX PREMIER LEAGUE Shepherd's Bush 143 all out Finchley 144-0 SHEPHERD'S BUSH lost by 10 wickets

WHAT Ed Reynolds wouldn't give for a rare bit of luck.

Bush's beleaguered captain suffered his fourth reverse of the season out of seven when another early collapse heralded a Saturday afternoon of struggle, mercifully brought to an end a little after 5.30pm.

Reynolds reckons Finchley are

better than all-conquering neighbours Ealing, but admits a bit of luck is long overdue his shell-shocked troops.

"Not so much this time, but in recent games that 10 per cent luck you get when you get a wrong decision in your favour seems to have passed us by," he said.

Bush were 7-4 after 19 balls, with new man Gene Maurice departing for a duck like the two other top-order batsman.

And it needed another mid-order salvage job courtesy of Reynolds himself (36), Byron Tudor (30), and Will Speer (35) to give the score a little respectability.

But Finchley's Steve Selwood (90no) got off to a flier, and he and Majid Ali (44no) never looked back to knock the runs off in half the time it took Bush to get to the same score. ..SUPL: